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Queen of the Damned

Play trailer 2:11 Poster for Queen of the Damned R Released Feb 22, 2002 1h 41m Horror Play Trailer Watchlist
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Follows the legendary vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend), who has reinvented himself as a rock star in the contemporary American music scene. His music wakes Akasha (Aaliyah), the queen of all vampires, and inspires her desire to make Lestat her king. Akasha's malevolent power is so great that all the immortal vampires must stand against her if they want to survive. Meanwhile, a young London woman with a fascination for the dark side (Marguerite Moreau) falls in love with Lestat.
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A muddled and campy MTV-styled vampire movie with lots of eye candy and bad accents.

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Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader Michael Rymer stages high-tech sequences combining gore, romance, and gothy music, and he has enough conviction to make what could have been very silly strangely provocative. Oct 20, 2009 Full Review Scott Foundas Variety It isn't great entertainment or camp, but pic sets its ambitions so low, it can't help partially delivering on them. Sep 15, 2008 Full Review Peter Travers Rolling Stone The film is vampire roadkill. Rated: 1/4 Aug 14, 2007 Full Review Cassondra Feltus Black Girl Nerds 'Queen of the Damned' is considered a bad adaptation, over-the-top silly, and just a poorly structured film in general. All are true. However, many, myself included, see it more as a disasterpiece, a guilty pleasure, a piece of 2000s nu metal nostalgia. Rated: 3/5 Aug 25, 2022 Full Review Pat Stacey The Herald (Ireland) The result is a film that's as camp as Butlins but nowhere near as much fun and full of awful performances and silly dialogue Oct 17, 2017 Full Review Steve Newton Georgia Straight It's mainly an excuse for director Michael Rymer to unleash his arsenal of flashy, MTV-type visuals and Moulin Rouge costume designer Angus Strathie to play dress-up. Rated: 1.5/5 Feb 8, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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Carson S. It was awful. Pure dreck. What a tragedy this was that poor girl’s legacy. I would have given it a 1/4 star if I could have. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/06/25 Full Review Joseph N One of the most original vampire movies of all time! Love this movie 👌 Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/29/25 Full Review alexis B The movie is really its own separate story. I may be bias bc I picked this movie out for my 6th birthday. I obviously had no idea of the Vampire Chronicles. As a 29 year old now who has since watched AMC IWTV, and read Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned and currently reading Tale of The Body Thief- I understand how removed the film is from the books. Still Queen of The Damned is its own short story with one of the best soundtracks in film history and early 2000s flare. IMMA STAND 10 TOES DOWN THIS MOVIE IS ICONIC Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/27/25 Full Review michael g Ultimately I think Anne Rice was correct, the casting was poor. Aliya as Akasha and Stuart Townsend as Lestat left me much to desire. Also in what may be an unpopular opinion, the music by Jonathan Davis of Korn fame was annoying and did not fit the movie. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 06/05/25 Full Review Deepest Bluest Suede Darius Dick Stinger Apini Emanuel Grouch Nukem III AKA The Rumble AKA Jennyanyany McPoopface Bridgerton AKA The Count of Monte Fisto But where was Abraham Lincoln??? Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 05/09/25 Full Review Joey B If I could score this a ZERO, I would. The only thing even close to the source material were the characters names and that Lestat was a rockstar. The best thing about this movie was the sound track, and that doesn't even begin to save it. Terrible acting. Terrible screenplay adaption. This could have ressurected the film adaptation of The Vampire Chronicles and made an incredible film franchise, but it was just bad. I havent watched it since opening day in 2003 and wish I could forget it entirely. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/06/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Follows the legendary vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend), who has reinvented himself as a rock star in the contemporary American music scene. His music wakes Akasha (Aaliyah), the queen of all vampires, and inspires her desire to make Lestat her king. Akasha's malevolent power is so great that all the immortal vampires must stand against her if they want to survive. Meanwhile, a young London woman with a fascination for the dark side (Marguerite Moreau) falls in love with Lestat.
Director
Michael Rymer
Producer
Jorge Saralegui
Screenwriter
Anne Rice, Scott Abbott, Michael Petroni
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co
Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures
Rating
R (Vampire Violence)
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 22, 2002, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 17, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA)
$30.3M
Runtime
1h 41m
Sound Mix
Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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